Record Monthly Cold Sweeps Queensland; May Snow Clips India; Ireland Registers Its Largest-Ever Quake; Alaska’s Very Cold April; + G3 Storms Possible Tomorrow
Record Monthly Cold Sweeps Queensland
Australia’s record-breaking cold has spread north, from Victoria and NSW into Queensland.
Large areas of eastern Australia are shivering through their coldest May temperatures ever recorded this week — a feat made even more impressive considering we’re still well inside the first half of the month.
Equally telling, Queensland hasn’t posted a colder temp since July 2019.
Tuesday morning (May 9) delivered truly historic readings to Queensland: The -5.7C (21.7F) logged in Oakey at 6:30am smashed the town’s previous May low of -4.4C (24.1F) set in 2019. The wind chill made it feel even colder, -9.5C (14.9F).
Notable monthly benchmarks have fallen elsewhere, too, including in Dalby (the -3.2C/26.2F there broke the town’s 1911 record of -2.2C/28F); on the Sunshine Coast (3.3C/37.9F); and in Blackwater (3.1C/37.6F) — to name another three.
Brisbane, after its record-cold winter of 2022, is starting the 2023 cold season in a similar vein, reaching 9C (48.2F). The Brisbane airport was colder, logging 4.4C (39.9F) — its lowest May reading in 17 years.
While in Amberley –where the official Ipswich temperature station is located– the mercury dropped to -0.8C (20.6C) at 4am and was on course to challenge the May record low there; however, and in classic Bureau of Meteorology fashion, the temperature probe had an outage between 4:30 and 7:30am — prime cooling times.
Records continued to be toppled in neighboring state NSW, too: Narrabri, for example, logged an exceptional -3.3C (37.9F).
The weather bureau said cool south-westerly winds were behind the stark plunge in temperature — natural factors, naturally; only heat is deemed unnatural.
May Snow Clips India
Swathes of India’s Jammu and Kashmir witnessed rare, late-season snowfall on Monday, May 8.
The snow was heavy in parts, particularly across the Kokernag region of South Kashmir which was completely covered.
Pahalgam’s Betaab Valley was another area to receive an out-of-season blanketing; Kulgam and Kishtwar also witnessed fresh flurries, according to ANI on YouTube:
Ireland Registers Its Largest-Ever Quake
An M2.5 may not sound all-that noteworthy, but the tremor registered throughout County Donegal over the weekend was Ireland’s joint largest earthquake in record books dating back to 1980, matching the M2.5 of Jan 26, 2012–also at Donegal.
The 10km-deep quake, detected by the Irish National Seismic Network (INSN) operated by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), struck at 12.30am near Glenveagh National Park on Saturday.
DIAS received ‘felt event reports’ from all over Donegal including at Buncrana and Desertegney in Inishowen. Shaking was also detected by several Raspberry Shake seismometers operated in Ireland by citizens and schools in Antrim, Sligo and Dublin.
While larger seismic events have been detected offshore by the INSN, this is Ireland’s largest onshore shaking.
Donegal’s quake followed an M3 in the Rockall Plateau in the North Atlantic, located approximately 600km to the NW, on March 4. While earthquakes in the Rockall Trough are often detected by the INSN, only one previous event has been detected in the Rockall Plateau — the M3.5 on Jan 10, 2016.
Earthquakes are thought to be a sign of the times.
Seismic/Volcanic activity correlates with changes in our Sun.
The recent global uptick can be attributed to the drop-off in solar activity, the increase in coronal holes, a waning magnetosphere, and the influx of Cosmic Rays penetrating silica-rich magma.
Alaska‘s Very Cold April
Overall, and despite the spurious headlines and UHI-ignoring datasets, the United States endured a cold April 2023.
April across the U.S. (Lower 48) finished with an average temperature of 51.37F which, even according to warm-mongering government agency NOAA, made for a month 0.48F below the multidecadal average.
The anomalies were starker still in Alaska.
Last month closed with an average of 16.3F across The Last Frontier, which, again according to official comparisons, is an impressive 9.9F below normal and made for Alaska’s fourth coldest April in 99-years of record-keeping:
G3 Storms Possible Tomorrow
Reversed-polarity sunspot AR3296 produced a long-lasting M.1.5-class solar flare on May 7 (at 22:34 UT):
The blast was squarely Earth-directed and is due to deliver storm levels of between G1 and G2 on May 10 or 11.
The explosion was relatively weak; however, given our planet’s ever-waning magnetic field strength combined this being a ‘long-lasting’ flaring event, stronger G3 geomagnetic storms cannot be ruled out.
During strong storms, auroras can descend to mid-latitudes and be visible in U.S. states as far south as Oregon, Nebraska, and Virginia.
We saw a similarly-impressive show back in April, one that delivered spectacular nightshinings to the likes of southern France.
For more, see the fourth story in my article dated April 24:
I’m also in the Lockyer Valley west of Brisbane, QLD, Australia and it was 4 degrees Celsius this morning. Real feel was zero degrees. It’s the beginning of May so sort of crazy. BOM predicting it will be cooler tomorrow morning. That must hurt them to say that. So much for this severely hot Autumn. Wrong as usual.
At the BK (Burger King) breakfast table my democrat friend happily said (after I remarked that I took morning temps every day) “and you see it’s warming, right?
Did you see that Viet-Nam had a high temp of 111 F?” Rather than argue I was feeling I let him go on with his rant about other things also.
This is an example of where is he watching that reported this high temp?
I certainly did not see it or hear of it.
Anyway, still cool here in SW Florida with a 62F this morning!
Dallas
There is no sense talking to a Democrat. They always have the “well that’s climate change” answer.
It does appear that the heatwave in Southeast Asia is true. Two days ago Vietnam surpassed its highest recorded temperature and reached 44.1 C. However, I don’t think they have been recording temperature readings in Vietnam for more than 75 years, so it is a stretch—and unscientific—to claim it is due to climate change/global warming.
More catastrophic signs of ‘Global Warming’…
I think this hoax could be called: ‘Global Warning’, isn’t? Be alert!
Central zone of European Russia – record frosts
For the fourth consecutive night, residents of the middle lane experience frosty weather. As already mentioned, the lowest temperature was on the night of May 8th.
In the Federal District, the cold record holders were the cities:
Tula (-3.6°C), Ryazan (-3.3°C). Tambov (-2.9°C), Orel (-2.1°C), Sukhinichi from Kaluga region (-3.2°C), Yelets from Lipetsk region (-1.9°C), Vyazma from Smolensk region (-3.8°C).
In the Volga region, the cities of Ulyanovsk (-3.3), Bezenchuk in the Samara region (-2.4°C), Chulpanovo in Tatarstan (-4.7°C) stood out.
https://www.hmn.ru/index.php?index=1&ts=230509133240
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Some areas of the Moscow region have already experienced frosts
With the arrival of a cold anticyclone in central European Russia, frosts returned to Moscow and the surrounding area. The first frosts were observed on the night of Saturday, May 6th. At this time in Moscow, according to the VDNKh weather station, the minimum temperature was -1.5°C. The coldest were the western and northwestern regions of the Moscow region, as well as Cherusti, located in the extreme east of the region. In Klin, the temperature dropped to -5°C, in Cherusty to -5.1°C.
Last night, the frosts persisted, but the temperature rose slightly. In Moscow, its minimum value at dawn was -0.9°C. In the region, the lowest temperature was observed in Naro-Fominsk -3.5°C, as well as in Cherustyakh -3.8°C.
https://www.hmn.ru/index.php?index=1&ts=230509104745
G’Day folks
I went to look for the local weather station data for laidley on the BOM site and other long running stations in the Lockyer Valley ( G’Day Riley), many go back to the 1800’s, so guess what, I can get daily rainfall data, but all temperature data is gone, and you have to apparently request it, isn’t that strange, I think I saved the data a few years back, just have to locate it now
Let us know if you manage to locate it.
Cap
Have you considered joining Twitter? I think you would be great there. Elon Musk does not seem to banish the truth. Might give you a much larger audience. I think your site is the tops in exposing the lies of the AGW cartel.